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In Windows XP, one could create a toolbar and dock it to the top of the screen and move all one’s desktop icons to it, so that your desktop remained clean and yet you had easy access to all. In ...

Hearing the words "extra toolbars" may make you squirm in fear, but a few readers show us how handy Windows' built-in taskbar toolbars can be. We recently showed you three useful tricks for organizing ...

Windows 10 includes numerous Troubleshooters, allowing users to fix different problems at times. You can add the Troubleshooters toolbar in the Windows 11/10 Taskbar if you use them regularly. It ...

Q: In the 05/02/15 Mailbag (“What happened to my favorites?“), you didn’t answer the second question, how to restore the toolbar at the top that lets Alice (and all of us) copy and paste things.

Microsoft released another incremental update of Windows 10 on Wednesday, Build 9879, with new gestures, an improved OneDrive file management system, and the ability to turn off the new “task view” ...

So I want to go from my current dual monitor set up, to a single monitor setup*. I know when I have done that in the past, it has caused "issues" in some programs where I couldn't access the palettes ...

When Microsoft’s Windows 10 deadline passed, many heaved a sigh of relief, thinking that Microsoft’s obnoxious popup reminders had finally been laid to rest. Surprise! Microsoft’s at it again, ...

When it comes to Windows 10, Microsoft is that like that annoying friend that's seen a movie you haven't and keeps asking when you're going to watch it (by the way, check out Deadpool if you haven't ...